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The Cuban Internet – past, present and future Larry Press, lpress@csudh.edu

The Cuban Internet – past, present and future Larry Press, lpress@csudh.edu. Pre-Internet networking. 32% of Caribbean international traffic More accounts than the rest of the Caribbean combined CENIAI – Soviet connection Tinored – Youth computer clubs

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The Cuban Internet – past, present and future Larry Press, lpress@csudh.edu

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  1. The Cuban Internet – past, present and future Larry Press, lpress@csudh.edu

  2. Pre-Internet networking • 32% of Caribbean international traffic • More accounts than the rest of the Caribbean combined • CENIAI – Soviet connection • Tinored – Youth computer clubs • CIGBnet – Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology • InfoMed – National System of Health Information

  3. September 9, 1996 “I have great satisfaction to announce that our beloved Cuba, our ‘caiman of the Indies,’ has been connected to the Internet … A new era has just begun for us” Jesus Martinez, Director, CENIAI

  4. Mosaic Group analysis framework -- Cuba

  5. Cuban ICT indicators

  6. The Cuban Internet today Expensive Restricted Slow

  7. International links Access network Domestic backbone

  8. Ping times from the US

  9. Ping times from Cuba to Google

  10. Hourly rates 1 CUC = $1.08

  11. Selected home prices

  12. Dedicated Internet connections

  13. Access restrictions

  14. No mobile Internet

  15. Web 1.0

  16. What went wrong? Soviet collapse US embargo Dictator’s dilemma

  17. Cuban GDP per capita

  18. Cyberwar

  19. Shaping the future Undersea cable Chinese role Aging leaders Cuban values

  20. ICT use in the health sector

  21. The Cuban Internet – past, present and future Larry Press, lpress@csudh.edu For more detail and references, see: Press, Larry, The state of the Internet in Cuba, January 2011 http://som.csudh.edu/fac/lpress/cuba/chapters/lpdraft2.docx For updates on the state of the Cuban Internet, subscribe to the blog at: http://laredcubana.blogspot.com

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